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  • Éirinn & Iran go Brách
    Mansour Bonakdarian
    Approaching Irish nationalism through the historical lens of 'Iran,' this book investigates patterns of Irish nationalist self-configuration and uses of memory, counter-memory, and historical amnesia by means of worlding Ireland from the late eighteenth century until Ireland’s partition and the founding of Irish Free State in 1922. ...
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    156,10 €

  • A Narrative Of The Expedition To Dongola And Sennaar
    Bethune English George
    'A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar' via George Bethune English is an enlightening ancient account that immerses readers within the British day trip to Sudan for the duration of the early 19th century. George Bethune English, a British officer, diplomat, and traveler, gives a vibrant and comprehensive narrative of the military marketing campaign geared toward ...
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    11,13 €

  • Four Months Among The Gold-Finders In Alta California Being The Diary Of An Expedition From San Francisco To The Gold Districts
    Tyrwhitt brooks J.
    'Four Months Among the Gold-Finders in Alta California' is a captivating work through J. Tyrwhitt Brooks, offering readers a compelling glimpse into the California Gold Rush during the mid-19th century. Brooks, an astute observer and participant within the transformative activities, affords an invaluable first-hand account of this high-quality length in American history. The bo...
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    12,25 €

  • Up The Country’ Letters Written To Her Sister From The Upper Provinces Of India
    Eden Emily
    'Up the Country' is a charming and witty travelogue written by way of Emily Eden, an outstanding English writer and sister of the Governor-General of India, Lord Auckland. The book chronicles her reviews and observations all through her travels via India, in particular in the northern regions of the usa throughout the 1830s. In 'Up the Country,' Emily Eden’s storytelling style ...
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    15,86 €

  • The Beginnings of Anti-Jewish Legislation
    Mária M. Kovács / Mark Baczoni
    The Nazi 1933 Civil Service Law and the 1935 Nuremberg Laws are often considered the first anti-Jewish decrees in interwar Europe. Mária M. Kovács convincingly argues that Hungary’s numerus clausus law of 1920, which introduced a Jewish quota at Hungary’s institutions of higher learning, was, in fact, interwar Europe’s first antisemitic law. By defining-and discriminating again...
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    82,37 €

  • Imperial Designs, Postimperial Extremes
    Anchored in the Russian Empire, but not limited to it, the eight studies in this volume explore the nineteenth-century imperial responses to the challenge of modernity, the dramatic disruptions of World War I, the radical scenarios of the interwar period and post-communist endgames at the different edges of Eurasia. The book continues and amplifies the historiographic momentum ...
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    108,37 €

  • The Not So Great America
    Gemechu Birehanu Bekana
    In ’The Not So Great America,’ Gemechu takes readers on a side-splitting journey through the United States without ever setting foot on its soil. Through the lens of stories, books, gossips, news, movies, social media, and personal encounters, Gemechu humorously unravels the myths and realities of the USA. From the amazing 90s to post-9/11 era to the Obama years, to the thrilli...
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    10,96 €

  • Medicalising borders
    Foci and vectors of communicable diseases are testing the efficacy of medical control at state borders. By drawing on the interdisciplinary expertise of a network of researchers the book demonstrates that current border security regimes of Western states exhibit a high share of bio-political power techniques that originate in European modernity. ...
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    43,87 €

  • London presbyterians and the British revolutions, 1638-64
    Elliot Vernon
    London presbyterians and the British revolutions is a case study in the politics of metropolitan religion and presbyterianism in the middle decades of the seventeenth-century. ...
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    43,87 €

  • Ancient Huntress
    Sara L. Weston
    The conventional portrayal of prehistoric gender roles has long depicted men as hunters and women as gatherers, perpetuating the notion that women played a passive role in early human societies. However, recent research and archaeological findings have challenged this narrative, revealing a more complex and nuanced understanding of prehistoric gender roles, women played an acti...
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    14,50 €

  • Disappearng New Mexico
    Mac Read / Manfred Laendle
    This book brings New Mexico’s rich history of ghost towns forward into the twenty-first century. Over a eleven-year period, the authors traveled to and photographed all of these towns. Since then, some have already changed or have become completely inaccessible. If you wish to visit them, go now.Ghost towns are not necessarily deserted. However, all have lost the main economic ...
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    17,52 €

  • Izor’s Journey
    Laurent Rejto
    Izor Rejtő, a young office clerk and a new father living in Budapest, Hungary, was conscripted into the Austro-Hungarian army following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914. During the course of the war, he embarked on a journey spanning 25,000 miles, where he bore witness to a spectrum of experiences, ranging from humor, horror, hope, to being a part ...
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    10,05 €

  • Forged in Spain
    Richard Baxell
    Between 1936 and 1939 several thousand men and women from Britain chose to leave the safety of their homes and involve themselves in another country’s civil war. The country was Spain, where a military uprising had been launched against the country’s Republican government. Most of the British who went to Spain were volunteers for the legendary International Brigades, though oth...
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    24,21 €

  • The History of Turkey
    Maurus Reinkowski / William J. Walsh
    A comprehensive, readable history of the Republic of Turkey that gives equal weight to all periods in the first century of the Republic of Turkey.The republican order of Turkey seems not to have changed much since its foundation in 1923, but there were dramatic transformations: From Atatürk’s modernization dictatorship in the 1920s and 1930s, over the massive migration into the...
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    25,23 €

  • The History of Turkey
    Maurus Reinkowski / William J. Walsh
    A comprehensive, readable history of the Republic of Turkey that gives equal weight to all periods in the first century of the Republic of Turkey.The republican order of Turkey seems not to have changed much since its foundation in 1923, but there were dramatic transformations: From Atatüuuml;rk’s modernization dictatorship in the 1920s and 1930s, over the massive migration int...
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    200,14 €

  • The Threads of Time
    Anika Malhotra
    Time is the thread that weaves the complex tapestry of history, a tapestry that captures the deep patterns of human experience and not just a collection of facts and dates. This allegory encourages us to view history as a complex web, where many 'threads' stand for different people or events and come together to provide a full and fascinating picture of the past.The metaphor of...
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    26,86 €

  • The Republican Hero
    Michael Lusztig
    Explores the question of whether heroes matter in the modern republic. ...
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    126,87 €

  • The River-Names of Europe
    Robert Ferguson
    The River-Names of Europe, a classical and rare book that has been considered essential throughout human history, so that this work is never forgotten, we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of ...
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    22,74 €

  • A progressive education?
    Laura Tisdall
    A Progressive Education? argues that the period after WWII witnessed a fundamental transformation in concepts of childhood and adolescence in England and Wales. ...
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    44,11 €

  • The Archived Web
    Niels Brügger
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    29,23 €

  • Pitiless Bronze
    Ruth J Heflin
    Archeologists, historians, anthropologists, literary analysts, and others tend to assume that, if a man was leading an ancient culture, it must already have been a patriarchy.However, we now know that most cultures began as gynocentric cultures, valuing women above men in spiritual and social structures because of women’s natural ties to the cosmos through menstruation and chil...
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    23,76 €

  • A Curious Childhood?
    Fran Levy
    Born of one 'off the wall' parent and the other not, how would you have grappled with the first 10 years of childhood, growing up in the late 1940s and ’50s?My mother, having a narcissistic personality, was able to plunge herself, together with her three young girls, into a life under canvas in order to escape her unhappy marriage.I did survive, surprisingly well (I think, thou...
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    15,34 €

  • CHINESE GLOBAL EXPLORATION IN THE PRE-COLUMBIAN ERA
    SHENG-WEI WANG
    How early did the Chinese explore the world? Did the Treasure Fleets, led by Admiral Zheng He, discover many parts of the world before Christopher Columbus? While it is known that Christopher Columbus discovered America and Europe ushered in the Age of Discovery, there is an ongoing debate on the 'unknown' areas depicted in Western maps from the period and earlier. There is agr...
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    211,50 €

  • The Luckiest Thirteen
    Brian W Lavery / Brian W. Lavery
    A relentless nautical drama that would define, or end, men’s lives.The English port city of Hull was home to ‘three day millionaires’ - trawlermen on brief shore leave. They were spilling cash from record catches. With months out working fierce seas, who knew if the next trip would be their last?The St Finbarr was set to change all that.She was built as the perfect trawler, no ...
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    16,15 €

  • Winning Numbers
    Jeff Copetas
    What would you do if you won the lottery?In 1998, James Hayes won $19 million. Why did he end up in prison twenty years later? A winner in Massachusetts receives $1 million a year for life. Why does he still have a flip phone and live in the same small house? AR Platinum spends six figures every year on the lottery ... and constantly loses. How does his losing make him a comfor...
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    9,93 €

  • The Secrets of BJ581
    Sara L. Weston
    The Secrets of Bj581: The Birker Female Warrior is a captivating exploration of the remarkable discovery of a female warrior buried in Birka, Sweden. This book delves into the historical context, archaeological evidence, and cultural significance surrounding this extraordinary find. By shedding light on the life and identity of the Birka Warrior, it challenges traditional notio...
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    14,34 €

  • Memoirs of a Russian Yesteryear - Volume II
    Anna Viroubova / Catherine Radziwill / Lili Dehn
    First Edition: 6.14' x 9.21' Paperback, Black & White, Cream paper, Matt cover. 635 pages.Within these covers there are three great Public Domain works: Book 1) Paul Vassili was a pseudonym of Princess Catherine Radziwill, the aristocratic wife of a Prussian officer. She experienced the European courts and wrote extensively about them, whilst secretly maintaining her true ide...
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    19,34 €

  • Religious Enlightenment in the eighteenth-century Nordic countries
    This book explores the theme of religious Enlightenment in the Nordic countries during the long eighteenth century. The volume’s fourteen chapters investigate how Lutheran confessional culture became intertwined with Enlightenment ideas and practices. ...
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    42,01 €

  • Cante Pri
    Adriana Soledad Ferretti
    Cante Pri, is the result of the work with 10 year old students in a Social Sciences classroom at School No. 48 'América Latina' in the city of Tres Arroyos. The question that initiates the research work, comes from a student after sharing a talk with Alberto Cellerino, former local combatant of the Malvinas War. From that moment on, people and facts marked the path that still t...
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    53,60 €

  • The Great Deep
    Shirley E Andersen
    Have you ever wondered about the circle inscribed on the face of the deep mentioned in the book of Proverbs? Or questioned the biblical account of creation and how it aligns with science as we know it today? The Great Deep explores all of these things and exposes secrets about human history in light of God’s Word--the filter for all wisdom and knowledge. This seminal book will ...
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    22,08 €


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